OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 18 shown for “John Wollaston” — 46 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 20:31 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Mrs. Joseph Reade, by John Wollaston

Mrs. Joseph Reade

John Wollaston · ca. 1749–52

Public domainThe Met
Martha Washington, by John Cheney, born South Manchester, CT 1801-died South Manchester, CT 1885

Martha Washington

John Cheney, born South Manchester, CT 1801-died South Manchester, CT 1885 · ca. 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
William Axtell, by John Wollaston

William Axtell

John Wollaston · ca. 1749–52

Public domainThe Met
Unidentified Man, by Unidentified Artist

Unidentified Man

Unidentified Artist · c. 1758

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Cadwallader Colden, by John Wollaston

Mrs. Cadwallader Colden

John Wollaston · ca. 1749–52

Public domainThe Met
Lewis Morris, by John Wollaston, c. 1710 - c. 1767

Lewis Morris

John Wollaston, c. 1710 - c. 1767 · c. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joseph Reade, by John Wollaston

Joseph Reade

John Wollaston · 1749–52

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Lucy Parry, Wife of Admiral Parry, by John Wollaston, born London, England-died Bath, England; active USA 1742-1775

Portrait of Lucy Parry, Wife of Admiral Parry

John Wollaston, born London, England-died Bath, England; active USA 1742-1775 · 1745-1749

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cadwallader Colden, by John Wollaston

Cadwallader Colden

John Wollaston · 1749–52

Public domainThe Met
Pterothamnion recurvatum (Wollaston) A. Athanasiadis & G.T.Kraft

Pterothamnion recurvatum (Wollaston) A. Athanasiadis & G.T.Kraft

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Mar 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Ralph Izard (Alice De Lancey, 1746/47–1832), by Thomas Gainsborough

Mrs. Ralph Izard (Alice De Lancey, 1746/47–1832)

Thomas Gainsborough

Public domainThe Met
Pterothamnion recurvatum (Wollaston) A. Athanasiadis & G.T.Kraft

Pterothamnion recurvatum (Wollaston) A. Athanasiadis & G.T.Kraft

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Feb 1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antithamnionella pacifica (Harv.) Wollaston

Antithamnionella pacifica (Harv.) Wollaston

Artist not stated in the record · May 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antithamnionella pacifica (Harv.) Wollaston

Antithamnionella pacifica (Harv.) Wollaston

Artist not stated in the record · May 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crouania mucosa Wollaston

Crouania mucosa Wollaston

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crouania mucosa Wollaston

Crouania mucosa Wollaston

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Sep 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hollenbergia nigricans (N.L. Gardner) Wollaston

Hollenbergia nigricans (N.L. Gardner) Wollaston

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hollenbergia subulata (Harv.) Wollaston

Hollenbergia subulata (Harv.) Wollaston

Artist not stated in the record · 21 May 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 260593 matched · 40 examined · 7 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 20:31 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.